Gold - American West
- Created by: BeckieJHart
- Created on: 14-03-16 11:22
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- Gold
- How it started
- James Marshell
- Sutters Fort
- Forty-niners, 100,000 people there by the end of 1849
- Routes to get there
- Panama
- Overland route
- Cape Horn
- Mining Towns
- Saloons
- Gambling
- Drinking
- Women in the form of prostitutes
- Calmed the men
- Started a family
- Gold Mining
- Panning
- Companies used hydraulic hoses to blast away hills
- Easy gold was soon gone
- Benefits
- San Francisco grew quickly
- Became lead in world trade
- Money increased so industry's expanded
- Problems
- Racism - Foreign tax pay & refused to work with forgien miners
- Poor living conditions
- Vigilantes - group to sort issues and become criminals
- Bad law & Order - Murder and claim jumping
- How it started
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